Look straight ahead at the tower above the gateway and you will see a beautiful clock. You’ll exit through the fountain court and start heading back to the entrance. You’ll exit the Henry VIII section at the top of staircase, it doesn’t look like much from above, but walk down the stairs and take a picture! OMG. This room was not originally an audience chamber, but it’s fun, right?! Queen’s Staircase. Audience Chamber.Ĭontinue walking down the haunted gallery (Henry’s fifth wife haunts this hallway) and there’s a throne room! Sit down and feel like a queen… or king. The tapestries on the wall are from Wolsey’s personal collection and the staff at Hampton Court have oh so nicely set up pillows on the floor to add to your instagram photo. The next room is called the great watching chamber, mainly because Henry had his guards watching over the entrance to his private apartments while his parties were going on and James I used this area to serve food after his guests watched a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Tip: They do a Henry VIII mini show here throughout the day, while the show is being performed on one side of the hall, you have the other side to yourself – to take as many photos as you want! Great Watching Chamber. This is where Henry VIII held his lavish parties and hosted hundreds of people. This is the Henry VIII section of the palace and the reason you came, right? You enter the Great Hall right away and your jaw drops with the details of the ceiling and the tall stain glass windows. Look to your left and you’ll see a staircase. Great Hall.Ĭontinue walking straight and you’ll enter the next archway. The courtyard is open and wide and most people don’t hang around here when the palace first opens, so you’ll be able to get a good shot with no one else in your frame. It’s not as symmetrical as the entrance and has the super cool cobble stones. Yes, it almost looks like the front, but it’s not. Walk in through the archway and you come to your first courtyard, known as the base court. It’s grand entrance is what first wowed Henry VIII when Cardinal Wolsey brought him here (and eventually ended up giving him the palace). I’m going to start with the most obvious. These are services and items I use and recommend myself. I then made it my mission to find all the photo worthy spots for you guys! *This post contains affiliate links and I may get a commission for the purchase made through the link at no extra cost to you. I went on google images and I scrolled through Instagram posts to try to figure out what outfit to wear and where the good spots were going to be, but to my surprise, everyone had pictures with the front of the palace and that’s it. I’m not sure if it was the fact that I was visiting a palace that I’ve wanted to see for years so I was overly excited, or…. Everywhere I looked, I thought “OMG, another picture!”. Hampton Court Palace is one of the most Instagram worthy palaces I have been to.